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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I made so much money in high school downloading MP3s or anime from Napster/Kazaa/Limewire and burning then to CD/DVD since I was, like, the only kid in town with a computer, access to the internet, and a DVD burner. I remember getting asked how my parents let me get away with it and I was like "my dad is the one who taught me how to do it!" He was always borrowing games or music from co-workers. He got the DVD burner to make copies, since DRM was basically non-existent at the time for a majority of games. S'how we had Quake!

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

If you don't mind me asking, were you on dial up, DSL, or coax?

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

IIRC, we first got DSL when I was just leaving junior high. Or maybe when I was a sophomore. I really don't remember when, but when I was doing most of this downloading, it was on DSL. When we still had dialup, I couldn't even reliably play UO all weekend, because we only had 1 phone line and someone would eventually need the phone.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah, downloading on 56k was not fun. My average per song was 1 hour, which I thought was decent considering it was free. My house got an additional line just for internet.

We eventually got a coax modem, I was at high school at the time when we went high speed too. I felt like I was in the future. Lol.

What I missed was losing access to AOL sites though but now that I look back, those were kinda trash.

[-] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Oof. I'm guessing your modem wasn't actually connecting at 56k then. Or anywhere near it. I was able to get a 3-5 megabyte mp3 in about 12-20 mins max using my dial up service. This is using Napster.